Spoon

Museum number:
2-4748
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-1144 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Mountain goat horn; curved integral handle with anthropomorphic design and squared off base. Old repair on bowl (broken). Steamed and bent mountain goat horn. Made of a single piece of horn; handle is an anthropomorphic head with a cylindrical head, his extended jaw forms the spoon's bowl which is decorated with 4 pins of ivory. Bowl split 3.0 cm along one side and repaired with sinews seams.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Prince William Sound, Valdez-Cordova Borough, Alaska
Culture or time period:
Chugach
Collector:
Alaska Commercial Company
Collection date:
Before 1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
eating spoon used for festivities
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 16.1 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: "See - 2-4339 note
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-4748, described as Mountain goat horn; curved integral handle with anthropomorphic design and squared off base. Old repair on bowl (broken). Steamed and bent mountain goat horn. Made of a single piece of horn; handle is an anthropomorphic head with a cylindrical head, his extended jaw forms the spoon's bowl which is decorated with 4 pins of ivory. Bowl split 3.0 cm along one side and repaired with sinews seams.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-4748, described as Mountain goat horn; curved integral handle with anthropomorphic design and squared off base. Old repair on bowl (broken). Steamed and bent mountain goat horn. Made of a single piece of horn; handle is an anthropomorphic head with a cylindrical head, his extended jaw forms the spoon's bowl which is decorated with 4 pins of ivory. Bowl split 3.0 cm along one side and repaired with sinews seams.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-4748, described as Mountain goat horn; curved integral handle with anthropomorphic design and squared off base. Old repair on bowl (broken). Steamed and bent mountain goat horn. Made of a single piece of horn; handle is an anthropomorphic head with a cylindrical head, his extended jaw forms the spoon's bowl which is decorated with 4 pins of ivory. Bowl split 3.0 cm along one side and repaired with sinews seams.

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